Question

Jerry has been blind for several decades. If you show him a picture of a bear that is snarling and about to attack, he says he cannot see anything. Nevertheless, for some reason he feels a bit scared about the picture. What did Jerry just experience?

Answer 1

Answer: Jerry just experienced BLIND SIGHT.

Explanation: Blind sight can be defined as the ability of people who are cortically blind due to lesions in their primary visual cortex, to detect and identify visual stimuli by forced-choice guessing when stimuli are in blind parts of visual field.

This usually occcur in individuals that have conscious blindness on only one side of their visual field.